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I've done 0 to 5 several times, but considering my original site is a PR6 that was fairly easy. I don't give PR much credit though because I've had PR5 sites that don't rank worth a squat. The relevance of the PR seems to be much more of a factor now. Also something that's become really important is the frequency of your URL in blog posts. You can have a PR5 that never gets mentioned in blogs that won't rank at all, or you can have a PR2 that gets a ton of blog attention that ranks extremely well.

Anyway, as a sidenote I recently removed a PR6 link to one of my sites that wasn't ranking at all. Then about 2-3 weeks later the site started getting some SERP love, go figure...

I never thought I'd say this, but...what Snib said.
The SEs are crazy.

Although *this* is sure weird:

Anyway, as a sidenote I recently removed a PR6 link to one of my sites that wasn't ranking at all. Then about 2-3 weeks later the site started getting some SERP love, go figure...

I always thought that even if the linker was penalized (it's possible for a site to have PR6 and be penalized and/or filtered), the linkee wouldn't be affected. But that sounds like the link was working against you! I wonder what made it a problem?

As for what my biggest PR increase was, I think it was from 0-4. But it's been so long since some of my sites first got their PR that I don't remember their debuting scores.

"Anyway, as a sidenote I recently removed a PR6 link to one of my sites that wasn't ranking at all. Then about 2-3 weeks later the site started getting some SERP love, go figure..."

Getting a link from a PR6 page is good. I don't see how it possibly can affect you in a negative way.

As far as the original questin. 0-5 is real good. My last new site and others usually start at a 4. There are probably some that start at a 6 here and there and maybe some more but those are usually some major web properties type stuff or something that has had some major coverage with lots of good links in.

I keep getting "unsufficient backlinks" for sites with that tool (they say minimum 100), even ones that have over 1K links, and others that are PR5 on the homepage and PR4 on the interior pages, one PR5 on all of the pages of the site (it's actually close to a PR6).

There was a time when a brand new site starting out with PR0 could go right up to PR4 on the homepage within the month, with only one single link from a PR5 page. That's the biggest jump I've seen from only one IBL.